Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri because it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024. Over a couple of yr and a half since then, the discharge date for this new period of Siri has been repeatedly pushed again. In response to a brand new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, we’ll doubtless have to attend even longer.
Whereas the brand new Siri was anticipated to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 replace in March, now, the adjustments are anticipated to roll out extra slowly over time, reportedly suspending some options till the Might iOS replace, and even till the discharge of iOS 27 in September. Apparently, Apple bumped into hassle when testing the software program, requiring the launch date to be pushed again additional.
The adjustments are rumored to make the longtime digital assistant extra just like the LLM chatbots which have swept the tech world — however as a substitute of opening up a ChatGPT or Claude app in your iPhone or MacBook, you’d have the ability to simply discuss to Siri, which will probably be powered by Google Gemini.
We’re beginning to really feel dangerous for the Siri product managers. Grasp in there, of us.
